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turn off shutter sound on nex5/5n?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:21 pm    Post subject: turn off shutter sound on nex5/5n? Reply with quote
How can I turn off the shutter sound of the nex5/5n?

I am thinking to bring the nex5n to concert. So far I cannot see how I can turn off the shutter sound. The canon Gxx is silent.
What annoying sound.


PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't be done. What you hear is the actual shutter, not a imitation "shutter sound" played back through a loudspeaker like on compacts or cellphones. It has the same motor driven focal plane shutter as current Sony SLRs - and its small case size provides for less damping, so that it is even louder than some of the latter.


PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
you may have to buy an x100 for this feature! Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
rbelyell wrote:
you may have to buy an x100 for this feature! Very Happy


I'll buy two if it has FF Laughing


PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
hoanpham wrote:
rbelyell wrote:
you may have to buy an x100 for this feature! Very Happy


I'll buy two if it has FF Laughing


AMEN to that!


PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
rbelyell wrote:
you may have to buy an x100 for this feature! Very Happy


or if you want to use your lenses, the Ricoh GXR + M module


PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
i,m finding that ricoh more and more attractive...


PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
btw. the Fujifilm X-Pro1 most likely will have a silent shutter too


PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
1.5 crop fact= non starter


PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stop talking bullshit.
The sound can't be turned off completly, but the NEX-5N has a silent shutter function in the options menue somewhere under "Eye-Start-AF"!

Instead of the loud "zick-zack" sound it will only make a single much more quiet "klack".
That was the main reason for me to change from NEX-3 to NEX-5N
But it's maybe still annoying in a classic music concert, etc.


PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
i have both nex5 and nex5n. nex5n has one click and sounds less, but still too loud.
It is the size i consider to take it to the concert.

I use to bring the pentax K5 with a few low light fast MF, but i have to stay out of my seat, mostly in the aisle.
The K5 is silent enough. MF gives no AF noise, no AF assist light. SR in body is excellent for low speed handhelt.

oh yah, crop factor 1.5x does matter. Consider in concert, the 50mm is pretty wide in a relative distance.
85mm gives full body, 135mm half body. 180/2.8 or 200/2.5 can frame in more, but they might be too heavy/bulky.

Too bad, the nex5n + 50/1.2, 85/1.8, 135/2.8 will fit in a small bag.


PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ForenSeil wrote:
Stop talking bullshit.
The sound can't be turned off completly, but the NEX-5N has a silent shutter function in the options menue somewhere under "Eye-Start-AF"!

Instead of the loud "zick-zack" sound it will only make a single much more quiet "klack".


Sony advertises it as a function to reduce shutter delay, not as a low noise mode. Arguably disabling the first shutter curtain halves the number of noisy shutter curtain closing and re-tensioning events - but the volume of each event stays the same. This would help statistically (a press pit with a hundred cameras all set that way would be half as noisy), but not individually (when you are the only one firing a camera during a concert).


PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bye the way Sony announced to introduce electronical shutters for 2012.
So I guess the next NEX will have a noiseless shutter.

"Source": http://thenewcamera.com/?p=7915


PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
kuuan wrote:
btw. the Fujifilm X-Pro1 most likely will have a silent shutter too

No it won't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENpbrZjsxUg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ForenSeil wrote:
Bye the way Sony announced to introduce electronical shutters for 2012.
So I guess the next NEX will have a noiseless shutter.

"Source": http://thenewcamera.com/?p=7915


The NEX-7 does have an electronical shutter and still you hear a sound, because only one shutter is "electronic".
You can choose between the "NEX-7-sound" (clonk) or the tradional "NEX-sound" (clack-clonk). Wink


PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Been away for a while from Nexes - can someone tell me which is the most silent Nex currently?
I'm looking at least 5n.

As far as i remember Nex-3 had very loud shutter sound - no where near to E-P2 for example.
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